Name: Antique Master Print-WIFE-GENRE-FAMILY-INTERIOR-Smith-1791
SKU: PICTURA-12150
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Antique Master Print-WIFE-GENRE-FAMILY-INTERIOR-Smith-1791

€95.00

‘A WIFE / UNE FEMME MARIEE’

– A young married woman sits sewing in a domestic interior. A work-basket rests on a small round table to her right. A little girl sits on the floor beneath the table, propping up a doll on a small stool, while a little boy stands to the left by the window, reading from a book. The scene emphasizes family life, education, and domestic virtue.

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Description

Medium: Stipple engraving on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 28.8 x 42.7 cm (11.34 x 16.81 inch). Image size: 26 x 39 cm. (10.24 x 15.35 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. Trimmed to image. Thin paper spotin middle , backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

WIFE, MARRIED WOMAN, FAMILY SCENE, DOMESTIC INTERIOR, CHILDREN, MOTHERHOOD, SEWING, 18TH CENTURY, BRITISH PRINT | PCO-30-28

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by John Raphael Smith, London.

Reference: D’Oench, Copper into Gold, no. 310; Frankau, John Raphael Smith, no. 376.

Biography engraver: John Raphael Smith (1751?1812) was a leading British engraver and publisher, renowned for his refined stipple engravings after paintings and his own designs. He played a major role in popularizing the stipple technique in late 18th-century Britain, particularly for portraits and genre subjects.